Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...break in Russo-German relations after the collapse of the Reinsurance treaty and today it follows the alienation of Russia by the acts of the Hitler government against Communism. Then Russia desired support in the Balkans; now she wants the assurance that her European frontier will be safe from attack in the event of a war with Japan. In 1890, however, the treaty was directed primarily at Germany. This, I do not believe to be the case with the present treaty. France intends it more as a gesture than anything else for in the event of a war with...
...capitalist power, Moscow waited curiously to see whether he would shake hands with President Roosevelt's alert and smiling Ambassador William Christian Bullitt. As the train carrying Mr. Bullitt and nine-year-old daughter Anne rolled from Poland into Russia this week he was met at the frontier by undersecretaries of the Soviet Foreign Office who pointed out that so much honor had never been done by the Soviet Government to a foreign diplomat before. Banqueted on the spot in the frontier railway station, Guest Bullitt and his Red hosts discreetly clinked glasses in a "silent toast," then sped...
Skiing down the glittering white shoulder of a Bavarian alp on the Austro-German border a group of black spots loomed large to an Austrian frontier patrol. In the huge, still basin a single shot sounded loud, a puff of smoke looked small against the snow. One of the coasting black spots crumpled, slid into a sprawled heap. Thus did a nervous Austrian soldier kill one Philipp Schumacher, private in the German Reichswehr...
...they are by now so thoroughly disgusted with the immediate effects of prohibition, and so willing to eschew the saloon if a satisfactory alternative presents itself, that the framing of wise liquor legislation is a matter or profound social importance. That legislation must set at the beginning a far frontier of government control upon which no one will dare to encroach; specifically, it should prohibit the sale of liquor of any kind outside of federal dispensaries and restaurants. In the beginning, those restaurants may seem to be little more than dining saloons, and there will probably be drunkenness and some...
...subordinate drinking to eating, and would make that subordination natural in the public mind. We have tried to reform the public mind by an imposed abstention, and we have seen that the reform must proceed largely from, and must be moulded by, that mind itself. The barbarism of the frontier has left its impress on our drinking habits long enough; now that a class has arisen which is moving away from the frontier in other things, our law must keep pace with it, over anticipating its upward trends, and recognizing the need for social stability which our civilization is surely...